NAVY RIGORS TOUGHEN CHESAPEAKE GIRL MEGAN KEITH IS UNDERGOING THE TRANSITION FROM CIVILIAN TO MILITARY LIFE.(FRONT)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: August 13, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: DIANE TENNANT, STAFF WRITER

ANNAPOLIS -- It is, in fact, possible to do push-ups while on crutches.

It is also necessary for some plebes at the United States Naval Academy, who have run up stairs and down halls and along roads until their foot bones have cracked under the pressure.

That's the only thing that has cracked on Keith, Megan V., Class of '01, from Chesapeake, Va. And she refused the crutches.

Six weeks of plebe summer have come and gone since 18-year-old Megan and 1,174 others entered the academy as the Class of 2001. It has been a sea change ...

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